A sea of clouds – short time-lapse from Pico Nambroque on La Palma

26th February 2017 / Carsten / Leave a comment

On a hike to Pico Nambroque on La Palma I had the chance to record a short time-lapse which shows the movement of the clouds over the island. I used a Fujifilm X-T1.

As usual, the exposure time, ISO value and focus were set to manual, the white balance was set to 7100K and the frames were recorded in the RAW format. The frames were then post-processed using https://rawtherapee.com/. I did the de-flickering using the following script: https://github.com/cyberang3l/timelapse-deflicker

Clear skies!

Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:19 pm

The Great Orion Nebula from La Palma

2nd February 2017 / Carsten / Leave a comment

The Great Orion Nebula (M42) - 2017/02/02

Recently I took this image of the Great Orion Nebula from La Palma / Spain. Actually it was just a test of my equipment. I did not align the mount and hence the guiding was miserable. I only took some frames with the IR filter with different exposure times. Still, in the end the result was much better than I expected. I love the La Palma sky! 🙂 The image is also available in full resolution here.

	Date	2017/02/02
	Location	La Palma / Spain
	Object	The Great Orion Nebula
	Camera	Atik383L+
	Guiding	yes, QHY5-II Mono via OAG
	Telescope	8" GSO Newtonian
	Barlow lens	none
	Mount	EQ6Syntrek
	Cooling	0°C
	Luminance	4x 5s, 7x 15s, 9x 75s, 7x 150s, 5x 300s, 2x 600s, all bin: 1x1
	Red	-
	Green	-
	Blue	-
	Dark	-
	Flat	10x
	Total exposure	~1h15m

Clear skies!

Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:20 pm

Astrophotography on La Palma – Messier 78

5th December 2016 / Carsten / Leave a comment

Last night I took my first astro picture with my own eq uip ment from La Palma. My object of desire was reflection nebula Messier 78 in the constellation Orion.

After quite some unsuccessful attempts in the past days and nights (because of some technical problems, strong wind and clouds) this was a very big moment for me, and I am proud to show my first result here 🙂

	Date	2016/12/05
	Location	La Palma / Spain
	Object	Messier 78 (reflection nebula)
	Camera	Atik383L+
	Guiding	yes, QHY5-II Mono via OAG
	Telescope	8" GSO Newtonian
	Barlow lens	none
	Mount	EQ6Syntrek
	Cooling	-15°C
	Luminance	9x, 600s, bin: 1x1
	Red	10x, 150s, bin: 2x2
	Green	10x, 150s, bin: 2x2
	Blue	10x, 150s, bin: 2x2
	Dark	2x
	Flat	10x
	Total exposure	~1h55m

The image is also available in full resolution here. I decided to put this image into my “Top Astro-Pics Gallery”.

Clear skies!

Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:25 pm

Day and night on La Palma – Remake

31st July 2016 / Carsten / Leave a comment

Recently I created a “Remake” of my last Timelapse video “Day and night on La Palma”. The remake has new music (Divenire from Ludovico Einaudi) and a new cut. Enjoy 🙂